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- Title
Group Identification and Outgroup Attitudes in Four South African Ethnic Groups: A Multidimensional Approach.
- Authors
Duckitt, John; Callaghan, Jane; Wagner, Claire
- Abstract
Although Sumner's ethnocentrism hypothesis, which expects stronger group identification to be associated with more negative outgroup attitudes, has been widely accepted, empirical findings have been inconsistent. This research investigates the relationship of four dimensions of ethnocultural group identification previously proposed by Phinney, that is, salience, evaluation, attachment, and involvement, with attitudes to ethnic outgroups in four South African ethnocultural groups (Africans, Afrikaans Whites, English Whites, Indians). The findings supported the factorial independence of the four identification dimensions and indicated that only one, ethnocultural evaluation (ingroup attitudes), was systematically related to outgroup attitudes, but the association could be positive, negative, or zero. Both functionalist and similarity-dissimilarity approaches to intergroup relations seemed to provide plausible explanations for the pattern of relationships obtained between ingroup and outgroup attitudes.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOLOGY; CULTURAL relativism; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; INTERGROUP relations; SOUTH Africans
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2005, Vol 31, Issue 5, p633
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167204271576